ARTrageous Summer Art Camps for Children
Download Children Summer Art Camps schedule and registration form

Session 1 Monday, June 15—Friday, June 19
9 am to noon

STORIES IN CLOUDS AND STORMS
with Susan Connors
Use chalk, charcoal and paints to create work inspired by the sky. Learn to see shapes and shades to put in your drawings and paintings.

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3-D STUFF
with Petra Selders
Become an abstract sculptor! Use materials from our planet to make artwork in 3-d space. Everything natural or man-made, from wood, shells, leaves to recycled plastic, aluminum and containers, can be used.

Course: June 1–A
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

BASIC, IMAGINATIVE DRAWING
with Brian Williams
Learn how to put what you see on paper— basic lines, shapes, textures and spaces. Discover how pencil, ink, pastels, paint can enhance the light, shadow and \ impact of your artwork.

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OBSERVE AND IMAGINE!
with Susan Connors
Blend what you see in clouds or storms into creative drawings and paintings. Use a variety of artistic styles—impressionism,
surrealism, and cubism—in your artwork.

Course: June 1–C
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

PUTTING IDEAS ON CLOTH!
with Carol Manuputy
Have fun making mudcloth, dying your ideas into cloth, and forming beautiful artwork with natural wool on felt.

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GROWING A SCULPTURE!
with Petra Selders
Start with simple materials and build on your ideas. Create shapes that go out and up, twist and turn. Make a wonderful sculptures
that you can walk around or let your fingers travel into!

Course: June 2–A
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

NEGATIVE SPACE GETS POSITIVE
with Susan Connors
Explore and transform negative space as the subject in your artwork. Sketches will develop ideas that will evolve into drawings,
paintings, and mixed media art.

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WORLDWIDE IDEAS ON CLOTH
with Carol Manuputy
Experience cloth as your palette. Use batik, to create repeated designs on cloth. Draw,
print, and dye a variety.

Course June 2–C
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

WONDERFUL WET PAINTINGS
with Petra Selders
Use your wet brush to make fun filled marks in watercolor. Put lines and shapes together with paint that flows across your art paper.

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IMAGINE THAT!
with Lori Wolf
Find ideas in unexpected places. Create 2-d and 3-d artwork inspired by the rhythm and flowing movement in everyday objects.
Explore imaginative ways to use pencil, ink, paint, pastels, markers and found materials. It’s real fun for young artists!

Course: July 3–A
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

RHYTHM AND MOVEMENT
with Lori Wolf
Put flowing energy into your drawings, paintings, collages, prints and assemblages.
Be inspired by industrial objects
you observe. Develop 2-d impressions into exciting new 3-d forms.

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HANDMADE NATURE THEME BOOKS
with Julie Steyer
Design a nature themed book using simple printmaking, designs, color, shape, pattern and texture. Completely create a unique
handmade accordion-style book! It’s fun.

Course: July 3 –C
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

MASKS AND MOVEMENT
with Carol Manuputy
Make folk art animal and people masks using man-made and natural materials. Carnival masks will be designed. Wear your
screen mask and dance to the Caribbean beat!

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CARIBBEAN MURAL
with Lori Wolf
Put your individual tropical island ideas together to plan and paint a large group mural. Palm trees and ocean breezes create fanciful drawings and vibrant island
colors to bring the mural to life!

Course: July 4 –A
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

SOUND IN SCULPTURE
with Lori Wolf
Use metal, plastic, wood and more to create hanging artwork that can produce sound. Invent unique ways to incorporate containers into your mobile artwork.

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TROPICAL DRAWING AND PAINTING
with Susan Connors
Make drawings of tropical fruits and vegetation using various pencils, chalk and oil pastels. Express your realistic and abstract
paintings in mixed media. Discover famous artists influenced by the island culture.

Course: July 4 –C
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

WEAVE IT!
with Lori Wolf
Make fun weavings in paper, wire & burlap. Create original collages with found materials and weave them together to create bold
new artwork.

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MY PAINTBRUSH!
with Carol Manuputy
Discover what happens when you work with a paintbrush you have made. Put it together for some painting fun! Find out how your art
changes when you use different materials to make a paintbrush. Go for it—brush it!

Course: August 5 –A
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

METAL TOOLING
with Brian Williams
Work with soft metal foils for tooling original designs. Design ideas to emboss with simple modeling tools on this fun material.
Incorporate tessellation into your work.

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WORD WEAVING…AND MORE!
with Lori Wolf
Create original collages out of manipulated paper, wire and recycled materials. Create off-loom weavings incorporating words,
mixed colors, & inspired textures. Learn to weave on card looms.

Course: August 5 –C
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

CUT ‘N PASTE!
with Madeline Simonaro
Put color and texture, rough or smooth, thick or thin papers together to build your collage and design freeform 2-d art. Watch
your collage spread out & grow!

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ART IN ROCKS
with Susan Connors
Pick and choose just the right rocks to tell your own story. Your ideas will become fun installations as they are created and change. The rocks will come alive with your inspiration!

Course: August 6 –A
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

ROCKS AND STORIES
with Susan Connors
Explore life stories, parables and myths using the subject of rocks. Connect words from the past to the shape, space & placement
of rocks to convey an idea.

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PRINTMAKING
with Brian Williams
Learn to print your artwork. Build your own blocks. Both single and repeated, multi-color designs will be explored.Water-soluble
ink will be used. Learn to use the printing press for your artwork.

Course: August 6 –C
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

ARTrageous Summer Camps for Teens at the San Luis Obispo Art Center
Download Teen Summer Art Camps schedule and registration form
1 to 4 pm every day

Session 1
June 15 through June 19

Form and Expression in Wood
with artists Janine Kirkpatrick
& Brian Williams

Let wood shapes inspire you to create animal and human forms. Explore varied construction techniques and enhance your sculptures with paint and collage. Create a collaborative piece in
the style of Deborah Butterfield.

Course: TEEN -1
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

Session 2
June 22 through June 26

Creative Printmaking
with artist Barbara Rosenthal

Combine printmaking techniques
to create dynamic, dimensional art.
Watch your ideas explode as you
experiment with the printing process.

Course: TEEN-2
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

SESSION 3
July 13 through July 17

Peaceful Visions in Nature
with artist Julie Steyer

Explore personal and natural symbols of identity and peace using a variety of materials. Creatively express your ideas through colored pencil medicine
wheels, hot/cold yin-yang, and identity symbols in layered collage.

Course: TEEN-3
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

Session 4 TEEN - 4
July 20 through July 24

Life size Human Forms
with artist Suzette Morrow

Create human figures using unique materials—plaster bandages, packing tape, etc. Work in the style of George Segal to produce parts for incorporation into your full size human figure. It’s all about arms, legs, masks, torsos.

Course: TEEN -4
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

Session 5 TEEN - 5
August 3 through August 7

Transformation:
Science with Imagination
with artist Tim Anderson

Use a combination of planning drawings to develop a large collaborative mural. Start with images from science and change them into imaginative forms through collage and painting.

Course: TEEN -5
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

Session 6 TEEN - 6
August 10 to August 14

Landscape Layers
with artist Brian Williams

Using aspects of our landscape environment, create drawings and paintings on a variety of surfaces. Explore the layers in landscapes! Work in pencil, charcoal, watercolor and acrylic paints. Stretch out to the horizon with your artwork.

Course: TEEN -6
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members